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Basil Blackshaw HRHA RUA (1932-2016)
Estimate:
€15,000 - €20,000
Sold
€24,000
Live Auction
Irish & International Art
Size
46 by 38in. (116.8 by 96.5cm)
Description
Title: TREE
Note: Eamonn Mallie, Blackshaw's biographer and friend, wrote these observations following a discussion with the artist circa 2008:There is always in Blackshaw's late work a screen (not a physical screen) between reality and what he paints even though what he commits to board or canvas is routed in reality. He likes to remove himself from the immediacy of the image to find that 'otherness' of his subject. This largish work is all about paint, marks, painting, edges, the density of the paint, stains and literal jabs of colour all speaking for themselves in some instinctual way. This is a very Blackshaw painting. Under pressure to say something about the work the artist remarked 'there is nothing to say about this work other than it is a good painting'. Touché Basil!
Note: Eamonn Mallie, Blackshaw's biographer and friend, wrote these observations following a discussion with the artist circa 2008:There is always in Blackshaw's late work a screen (not a physical screen) between reality and what he paints even though what he commits to board or canvas is routed in reality. He likes to remove himself from the immediacy of the image to find that 'otherness' of his subject. This largish work is all about paint, marks, painting, edges, the density of the paint, stains and literal jabs of colour all speaking for themselves in some instinctual way. This is a very Blackshaw painting. Under pressure to say something about the work the artist remarked 'there is nothing to say about this work other than it is a good painting'. Touché Basil!
Medium
oil on canvas
